Grandparents

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Abramovich, Roman, Alda, Frances Jeanne, Angelou, Maya, Apess, William, Baca, Jimmy Santiago, Baker, Josephine, Bankhead, Tallulah, Bradford, William, Chips, Horn, Christy, Hirini Whaanga, Clapton, Eric, Commager, Henry Steele, Cookson, Catherine Anne, Cullen, Countée, Custis, George Washington Parke, Davies, William Henry, Dean, James Byron, Eastman, Charles Alexander, Ephraim and Manasseh, Finn Mac Cumhal, Gardiner, Wira, Grahame, Kenneth, Harald of Sogn (under Norwegian Ruling Families), Harrison, Pakariki, Hensley, Albert, Hughes, Langston, James Kali-o-kalani (under Hawai'ian Royal Families), Jenkins, Robert Thomas, Jones, David Ivon, Kawananakoa, Abigail Kapiolani (under Hawai'ian Royal Families), Kawananakoa, Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike (Hawai'ian Royal Families), Keats, John, Kepler, Johannes, Lewis, Eleanor Parke Custis, Magnani, Anna, McCarthy, Mary Therese, Mihinui, Dorothy Huhana, Mills, Robert Scourfield, Montgomery, Lucy Maud, Morgan, Tukoroirangi, Muhammad, Mustache, James, Nelson, Willie, Nicholson, Jack, Paulger, Irene, Poutu, Liana, Robinson, Bill, Roosevelt, Eleanor, Sanderson, Teresa Ione, Seed, Michael, Shin, Paull H., Simon, Ella, Stands In Timber, John, Sykes, Annette, Te Kurapa, Hikawera, Tito, Train, George Francis, Truffaut, François, Waaka, Te Kari, Williams, Jett, Winfrey, Oprah, Wolde, Degaga,

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Clapton, Eric

Clapton was born to an unmarried girl of 16 and a Canadian soldier, and raised by her parents. His mother left home, returning in 1957, but for some years the fiction was maintained that th... [more]

Commager, Henry Steele

Commager was orphaned as a child and raised by his mother's father in Toledo and Chicago. He became a famous college professor, teaching at New York University, Columbia University and A... [more]

Cookson, Catherine Anne

Cookson was born to a young unmarried woman and raised by her grandparents. Until she was seven she thought that her mother, Kate, was her older sister, and finding out that she was illegit... [more]

Cullen, Countée

Cullen was raised by his grandmother until her death, and then in 1918 he was adopted by the Rev. Frederick Cullen and his wife. His first collection of poetry was published in 1925, and... [more]

Custis, George Washington Parke

G.W.P. and Nelly Custis were the grandchildren of Martha Dandridge Custis and her first husband, Dan... [more]

Davies, William Henry

Davies' father died when he was a child and when his mother remarried he was adopted by his paternal grandparents. He emigrated to America when he was 22 and spent years wandering around th... [more]

Dean, James Byron

Dean was born to a married couple but when his mother died of cancer in 1940 his father sent him to Indiana to live with his grandparents, where he stayed until 1949. He then returned to li... [more]

Eastman, Charles Alexander

Eastman (his maternal grandfather's surname) was born Ohiyesa, the last of five children. His mother died soon after he was born. In 1862, after the Minnesota Sioux uprising he escaped with... [more]

Ephraim and Manasseh

According to the Bible these two sons of the patriarch Joseph and his wife Asenath (daughter of the Egyptian priest Potiphera), were born during his period as governor of Egypt and before t... [more]

Finn Mac Cumhal

Finn was the last and greatest leader of the Fianna. He was born named Demna, the son of Cumhal Mac Baiscne, who was killed by the Sons of Morna. His mother, Muirne, sent him away to the ca... [more]